Genital lesions complicating female genital cutting in infancy: A hospital-based study in south-east Nigeria

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-290

  Ekenze, S O ^a,b   Ezegwui, H U ^b   Adiri, C O ^b  

^a FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ESTROGEN; GENTAMICIN;

CHILD HEALTH; CULTURAL TRADITION; LESION; MORBIDITY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLITORIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOTHERAPY; NIGERIA; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TERATOMA; VAGINA DISEASE; VULVA DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADHESIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CLITORIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DERMOID CYST; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

AFRICA; IMO; NIGERIA; OWERRI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 36448969758     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532807X245670     Document Type: Article

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